UK access to EU finance for investment after Brexit 

The European Union has been a steady source of finance for UK infrastructure projects and regional investment, through grants from European structural funds and loans from the European Investment Bank (EIB). These flows of long-term, low-cost finance are clearly in question as Britain leaves the EU. So what happens when the European taps are turned off? This bulletin in our post-referendum series explores the implications for the UK – and for the principal European funding institution itself.